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Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the DNA of all of Earth’s known plants, animals, fungi and microbial eukaryotes over a period of 10 years. The team announced the initiative, known as the Earth BioGenome Project, in a p
This will allow the team to use thousands of organisms already on hand in museums

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‘Terror bird’ arrived in North America before land bridge – Research News

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Evidence from a study led by the Florida Museum of Natural History confirms that the carnivorous, seven-foot-tall „terror bird“ likely arrived in North America from South America several million years before a land bridge connected the two continents. Previously, scientists assumed the 330-pound, fl
The terror bird is shown in the lower left hand corner.

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Frolicking bears and other oddities – Research News

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Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken from the New York Weekly Sun. Unsigned, the article included a wonderful account of a visit to Turtle Mound, an archaeological site in modern Volusia County, just south of New Smyr
Twenty years later he was back to witness first-hand the initial efforts to drain

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Discover life beneath the ice at the Florida Museum’s new ‘Antarctic Dinosaurs’ exhibit – Pressroom

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Step back in time and embark on an icy adventure at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s new “Antarctic Dinosaurs” exhibit, opening Oct. 7. While Antarctica is a frozen land of snow today, this exciting exhibition reveals the lush habitat it once was 200 million years ago a
assemble a puzzle that shows how the continents used to fit together or even try their hand

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Scientific Illustrations – High School – Panama Canal Project (PCP PIRE)

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These lessons can be completed as a small continuous unit or you can take more time and spread it out amongst other units/lessons. Lessons & Teacher’s Notes Teacher Notes Scientific Illustration Handout – Helpful Tips: This is given to students at the beginning as a resource they will use t
gives you a good idea of what the original student wrote), students may need to hand

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Drawing dragons – Florida Museum Blog

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Dragons are everywhere. Rachel Keeffe knows this. She recently talked to UF News about dragons on the Game of Thrones series. If dragons could exist, what would they look like? How and where would they thrive? Rachel is currently a herpetology Ph.D. student at the Florida Museum/UF departm
the world, but ended up having to cap that at 100 because it quickly got out of hand

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Teachers receive fossils, create lesson plans at museum workshop – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers and amateur paleontologists teamed up to give K-12 teachers a crash course that came with some impressive party favors: real fossils. Through a four-day workshop in August 2017, called FOSSILs4Teachers!, 30 teachers from across the U.S. converged on a
them, but that’s not the same as when they actually get to hold them in their hand

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Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog – Research News

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The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean forests for at least 29 million years. A new study published in Biology Letters describes a fragmented arm bone from a frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus, also known as rain frogs or co
He examined it with his hand lens.

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A living history – Research News

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By his mid-20s, Keith Reeves had traveled the world. When he settled in Florida in the 1960s, however, it was in many ways an alien place: No ancient monuments like the pyramids he climbed in Egypt or mountains like those on South Pacific islands where he lived as a “Navy brat,� but a wet-hot, often
today.� The Reeves have experienced these living, breathing native cultures first-hand

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